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The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-07-14
THE COLOR LINE.

IFrom y Y journal of Commerce.
There is excitement Just now IN the town
Of Asbury, New Jersey. Between the vii
lage proper and the Ocean Beach IS strip
Of land owned chiefly by Mr.. James A.
Bradley, who has constructed a broad
plank walk along the beach, back Of which
is the Asbury Park with its pavlllions, bath
houses and places Of refreshment. The
hotels and boarding houses, SO largely
patronized in summer, are IN the village,
but the chief if not the only attraction TO
visitors lies ia the park, and especially IN
that broad walk where almost the entire
population congregate Of summer even
ing. There is no access whatever to the
beach except by way of the park 1he
hotels, barber shops, &c, employ multi
tude Of colored people, and this has drawn
a large number Of African families to the
place, who have built long row OF shan
ties Just outside of the park limits.
The income which supports the walk and
the park Improvements is derived from
the use of the same for the pleasure Of
summer visitors For several seasons past,
while the crowd was at its height, it Is
claimed that during pleasant summer
evenings the walters from the hotels whose
days service was then over, and the other
coiored people composing their families
and friends from the ouside, congregated
in the park, and especially upon the walk,
monopolizing its best seats, and by their
numbers and somewhat free and easy
manners, greatly interfering with the use
for which these accommodations were
originally designed. This season Mr.. Brad
ley has given notice that he will not per
nit tue intrusion of the colored element,
and he has thereby stirred up the wrath OF
the pastor and members of the Zion church,
and of all the more prominent colored peo-
pie in that vicinity.
We presume that Mr.. Bradley has been
led to this course under the impression
that his pecuniary interests were IN Jeo
pardv 1t is said that he is special friend
Of the negro and has done great deal fol
the coIored residents of that vicinity, but
he finds the prejudice SO strong that he is
compelled to forbid their wholesale use OF
the park, or to see the strangers by whose
patronage all Asbury has its wealth driver
from that favorite resort to some place less
crowded with the dusky element. He has
no quarrel with those of hue darker thar
his own, but the popular sentiment op
posed to intimate associations of this class
is too strong for his fraternal feelings, anc
he has been forced to yield to it.
The action of the Park people and the
Indignation it has excited has started anew
the discussion as to the rights of the blacl
race and what is deemed the unreasonable
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-07-14
Three Bales to One Acre.

lu the last number of the Southern
CuItlvator and Dixie Farmer, Mr. C. B.
Ferrell, Of Montgomery, Ala, states most
emphatically that he made three bales of
cotton on one acre of land last year, aver
aging 500 pounds each. Mr. Ferrel says
his land was sandy with clay and subsoil,
to which he applied 1900 pounds of com
post (Furman's Formula) aud 200 pounds
of what he calls Alabama fertilizer. He
says: 1.-The compost l used was made Of
stable manure, cotton seed meal, acid
phosphate and kainit, as Irrefer the meal
to the seed. The year before | took five
acres of very poor sandy land and fed it
as | cultivated it, and made four bales
weighing 500 pounds each l plant my
cotton in checks and cultivate exclusively
with the piow, except in bringing it to a
stand. 1t is better never to permit hoe
in it at all. Thin out by hand. 1t is the
hoe that eats up the profits of cotton"
He says also: ''The trouble with the
Southern planter is that he plants too
much land and cultivates it too little.
My seed were the improved Jones" varie-
ty. | had on exhibition at the State Fair,
one stalk of cotton eight feet high and
eight feet in diameter with 10 open bolls
on 1T. 1t was seen and examined by thou
sands of visitors, who perceived that some
of the bolls were nearly or quite as large
as turkey eggs"
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-07-14
THE EDITORS DESK.
COMMENTS ON TOPICS THAT ARE
INTERESTING THE PEOPLE.
The Chronicle Expresses Its Opinion on
Passing Public Events and Questions
Of Interest Now Before the People.


The Chronicle Expresses Its Opinion on
Passing Public Events and Questions
Of Interest Now Before the People.
\ prominent educator in the State
writes; ''Allow me to thank you for your
editorial in last weeks CHRONICLE on
school Commencements It has the
tfut ring, ana Your course, | am quite
sarr, Will greatly advance the educational
interests of the State
Iii a communication written few weeks
ago about Cronly and the mills at that
place, the writer said that several thou
sand dollars had been spent by the com
pany, and not seventy thousand, as the
printer had it. Mistakes will sometimes
occur III the best regulated families.
As n friend of the poor man, as we'll as
of the rich, we do not hesitate to say that
If the Homestead Law was repealed times
would be better for all persons. Instead
of benetitting the poor man, the Home
stead Law has been his curse, and it VIII
continue to be So Charlotte Democrat
Never was a truer thing written than the
following which We copy from the Annis-
ton Hot Blast:
The fact is the South will get Northern
capital in abundance when she demon
Srrates her ability to do without it. If she
Mil invest at home the money, annually
gamhled away, East and West, not much
Northern capital viii be needed.
The Charlotte Home-D Democrat, one Of
the honestest of honest aud best of good
papers, has entered on its thirty sixth vol
ume 1t is edited by our old friend v. j.
Yates Esq. who is one of Gods noblest
works, an honest man. IL announcing
that ii has entered on a new volume the
Home Democrat piously says Of itself:
AS good as ever and free and independ-
ent as eyer--the Lord bless us and still
continue to have mercy on Us in business
transactions, as in the past.
The next meeting of the North Carolina
Press Association will be held at Hender-
sonyille, beginning July goth. Mr.. J. !.
NcRee. Editor Of the News Observer, is
President of the Association and will de
liver an address on calling the Association
to order.
The annual oration will be delivered by
Josephus Daniels, editor of the STATE
CHRONICLE. The poem on the occasion
will be read by Miss Mamie L. Hatchett,
Of the Orphans Friend.
Among the interesting exercises we note
that a Historical Sketch of the Association
will be read by Mr.. Jordan Stone, of the
Ashevillc Citizen; Literary Essay, by II. {.
Wall, Of the Rockingham Rocket; Political
Essay. By q. A. Frick, OF the Shelby New
Era Historical Essay, by I. B. Eldridge,
Of the Lexington Dispatch, and an Essay
on Journalism, by J. \. Robinson, Of the
Charlotte Chronicle.
The citizens of Hendersonville have held
:. meeting and made arrangements 70 show
snarked hospitality and courtesy to tht
members Of the press.
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-07-14
Mount Vernon Springs.
Especial Cor. STATE CHRONICLE

Especial Cor STATE CHRoNIcLEl
Just one mile and half from Ore Hill,
on the G.. +. & Y. V. r. r., is Mt. Vernon
Springs. The water is IL combination OF
sulphur, soda, iron and magnesia. The
hotel, while not large fashionable build
ing, is in large shady grove, and is
picture of neatness and comfort. The
new bowling alley is quite feature of at
traction where one can have all the ex-
ercise he is looking for. The croquet
grounds afford amusement to those who
prefer that game. 4 npat aud oomforta-
BILE hack meets the trains at Ore Hill. The
table is amply supplied with substantials
for the benefit of the inner man.
Last but not least, Mr.. J. NJ. Foust, the
congenial hoste, leaves nothing undone to
add to the pleasure and comfort of his
guests. To all who desire to go off for a
month or so to rest and gain health, We
say to them, for quietude, good water and
health, 60 to Mt Vernon Springs.
H. B. II.
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-07-14
The Ears will Stick Out--The Knights
Undeceived About the Labor
Pretender.

Raleigh Cor. in Richmond Dispatchl
The Knights of Labor elected Congress-
man Nichols in this district. They thought
they had struck a bonanza. 1t would ap-
pear they they are disappointed. A rather
free spoken knight said to your corre-
spondent that Mr.. Nichols was in some
sense failure. This rather odd remark
caused inquiry, whereupon the Knight
said that hundreds of Democratic knights
voted for Mr.. Nichols under the impress
sion that he was an Independent and that
he would, if elected leave the Republican
party. But" said he, ''Mr. Nichols has
become even a stronger Republican than
ever before. Not few Knights are sorry
they voted for him. Mr.. Nichols is a
clever man and an earnest one, but he is
human, and he used the Knights as a
ladder on which to climb to public Office.
He got there and now has kicked the lad
der down."
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-07-14
A Republican Editor Visits the Pres.
ident.
~. c. l.. Harris in Raleigh Siunal1

The Editor of The Signal was accom-
panied by his two daughters, Addie Sue and
Maud, aged respectively II and Is. They
were presented to the President by their
father, with the inquiry if ''we'' looked
old enough to have two girls nearly grown
The President took each by the hand and
looked ''us'' over again and said: "No,
and the reason is that these girls have not
given you any trouble thus far in their
young lives. :"
The readers of The Signal must Judge
who was most pleased at this remark, the
Editor or the girls.
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-07-14
He W ants to Hug Them All-.TOO Bad!

From Scotland Neck Democrat-Ex Con-
gresham kltchin's Anti Cleveland Paper.
A lady of the Teachers Assembly told
the President she was proud to shake the
hand of the Democratic President. An eye
witness told US the President came near
hugging the lady. We are not surprised
that the President should want to hug a
them all, but we cannot believe any North
Carolina lady could think she was shaking
the hand of q Democrat In shaking Cleve-
lands.
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-07-14

[From Charlotte Chronicle

lFrOm Charlotte Chronicle
The lewd cigarette pictures have been
the cause of one murder so far-that of
Milo Thomas, who was stabbed by colored
boy, at Augusta, Ga, Tuesday morning.
These pictures must 20.
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-07-14
There is no Other Way Whereby The
Farmer May be Saved.
From Richmond State1

I
''The State and the Wilmington Star
agree exactly on this point: There can be
no lasting prosperity in this country until
agriculture is on a profitable basis, and
the agricultural interests cannot flourish
so long as the farmers are oppressed by
monopoly tariff"
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-07-14
Graham College.
From Alamance CLEANER

This is an institution recently establish
ed under the direction of the General Con-
venton of the Christian church in the
South and and through a committee on
schools and colleges appointed by the said
Convention. The school, though denomi-
national, will be unsectarian. The com
mittee having determined that a denomi
national college was necessity established
it at once, without waiting to erect build
ings, and for the present the buildings
known heretofore as Graham Normal
College will be occupied, as they have
been leased for that purpose.
The following faculty has been elected:
Rev. W. S. Long, A. NJ, president, and
professor of natural science and history.
Rev J. e. Newman, Phi. B., professor of
ancient and modern languages. Prof. S.
A. Holleman, mathematics. Prof. H. j.
Stockard, English literature. Other in
structors when needed will be added.
The first session of this school will open
Aug. 9Th.
Water w ont Run a Political C Convention
The Minneapolis Evening Journal says:
''The man who set up a water cooler in the
Kentucky Democratic Convention had
more water in it when the convention ad-
journed and the ice had melted than when
it met. The members of the convention
thought it was some kind of churn.''
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-07-14
Grand Encampment and Farmers Insti-
tute.
MASTERS OFFICE

MASTERS OFFICE.
FALKLAND, N. G., June 3Oth, 1887.
To the Brethren aed Sisters of the
Grange Of North Carolina Greeting:
This is to inform you that the Grange
Encampment and Farmers Institute will
be held at Mount Holly. in CASTOR county,
on the 10th, 18th, 18th and 18th Of Au-
gust, 1887 You and all of you are earn
estly requested to attend Chat can do 80
without inconvenience) and take with
you such home and farm production that
may encourage and assist to make the
Fair success
Capt. J. T. Patrick, of the State Board
of Agriculture will inform you Of the
necessary conditions and arrangements of
the Camp, and the terms of transporta-
ton, travel, &c.
Many brethren from South Carolina are
expected to be present. The Master is
expected to be at the opening and hopes
to see our noble Order largely attended.
Fraternally,
w. r. WILLIAMS,
Master of State Grange, P. of II.
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-07-14
no1iNofa niSoo,

Delicate Diseases, affecting
male or female, however induced, speedily
and permanently cured. Illustrated book
for 10 cents in stamps. Worlds Dispen-
sary Medical Association, 6e3 Main Street,
Buffalo, N. 7.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-06-17
WHY YOUNG MEN EAIL.
A Minister'S Address Which Contains MucI
Practical Advice


Practical Advice.
A good sized audience listened to the
address of Rev. w. S. Urmy, pastor Of
the First Methodist Church. at the
Young Mems Christian Association
Hall. His subject was: "The Failures
of Young Men, and Why"
THE reasons may all, said he, ''be
gathered into three groups; self-indul-
gence, false business methods, and de-
fects of character.
Under the first group may be named
Incidence, drunkenness, love of pleas
ure, lust, gambling and card-playing.
The young man who suffers himself to
indulge in these vices will almost sure
ly bar the way to success in life. If he
succeeds at all the chances of his sue
cess will be much less than if he had
kept himself clear from their indul-
gence.
Under the second group may be
mentioned dishonesty, running into
debt, becoming security, gullibility or
too great readiness to believe what
others may tell us, selection of bad
partners, RIGHTEOUSNESS, inattention to
business and oppression of the poor.
All these are false methods of business
and are potent causes in inducing fail
ure. The man who would succeed
must be scrUpulously honest, must
keep out of debt, must not contract
the habit of going bail, must depend
largely upon his own Judgment and
not upon the advice Of others, must
avoid all immoral partners, be gene
rous in giving out of his savings to
good causes, and must be attentive to
business and kind to the poor.
Lastly. there are some defects OF
character, which are fatal to success.
Among these may be mentioned, lack
of tact, shiftlessness or lack of energy,
aimlessness, hardness, Impotence, I'M
willingness to take advice, carelessness
in speech, abstrusiveness, pride and an
unamiable disposition. No matter how
correct the habits of life and methods
Of business may be, failure viii be the
result if the defects Of character named
are possessed in any marked degree.
To good habits and methods must be
added tact, aim, purpose and amiabil-
ity.
"One-half the business successes of
life are won by the constant exhibition
of a sincere desire to please.
''In short. attend to your character.
Make and keep it pure, and you have
the foundation upon which all lasting
success must be built. All the rules I
have given you are found in the Prov
erbs Of solomon. / advise you to get a
copy of them, read them once through
monthly. and make them the man of
your counsel in the business affairs Of
life. There is no better, no safer. no
surer guide. Follow their words a.
wisdom. and success viii crown your
efforts - San Francisco Cali
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-06-17
Antiquity of NeedIe-work.

Needle-work is as old as Eve; fancy
needle-work, however, is probably not
quite so old, so that even the elder of
the two is a trifle younger than the
hills, by whose age it Is a popular Gus
tom to measure time. George Sand,
in her autobiography, says of needle
work; 4 think that this exercise has
a natural attraction for women, an in
visible charm. which / have felt at
every period of my life and which has
tranquilized my strongest agitation. -
Another writer says: The woman
who has a mind too lofty to be occupied
in the needles cunning handiwork may
be all that is estimable, all that is
lovely and all that is amiable, but she
is trying person to stay with in wet
weather at country house. She may
be helpmate for a man, but no woman
would choose her for a lifelong COM
panion.=M T. Herald
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-06-17
COLLECTING OLD SHOES.


A Peculiar Business Which Seems to Pay
Handsome Profits.
''Never mind wrapping them up; I'll
leave the old shoes and wear the new"
said a customer in Hanover street shoe
store, as he pulled out his pocket-book to
pay for his purchase.
what becomes of all the old, cast-ofr
boots, shoes and rubbers left in your
storee' inquired Boston Herald repor ter
as he tried on new pair of number fives.
I'VE sell most of Them" returned th e
proprietor. ''There is quite a business
done in WORKOUT shoes No less than
three or four men come around every week
to get what I've got. get from five cents
up to fifty cents for old boots and shoes.
There are some, however, that they won't
buy at all, they are so badly worn. Most
Of my customers get all the wear out of
shoe before they throw it away, but some
pretty good c2staways are to be picked
up In the big stores uptown. Once on a
time some good ones were left here, but
nowadays shoes and boots are worn as
long as a button or shoe-string will stick
to them. People are getting poorer or
more economical"
t'What is done with the old shoes?n
''They are patched and Axed up as well
as can be done, and sold to poor people at
a low price. The business is so large in
this city that large number of these
shoes saved from the ash barrel IS sent
to New z ork TO be sold. 1t is a good thing
for the poor, for some times they can buy
a better wearing shoe from one of these
collectors than in q store when brand
new"
''How about Ella rubbers and rubber
boots4"
''Those are in great demand and are
purchased, even if there is more hole
than rubber. Every thing in the rubber
line is bought at the rate of tn rec cents
pound by the collectors, who sell it for a
little more to manufacturers, who, I'M
derstand, melt the rubber down and work
it over again"
SIS there any money in this old shoe
collecting business?''
81 can't say, but think so. l know one
yilIe'
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-06-17
Mks. sURRArr.s GRAVE.
A Correspondence Chat About a visit Q
Washingeon's Mount OIivss.

A Correspondents Chat About a visit Q
Washingeon's Mount Olivst.
Says a Washington correspondents Of
the San Francisco Chronicle: Strange as
1t sounds, one may ask dozen people in
Washington, anyhow, where Mrs. Surratt
was buried and be told they shave real
Iy forgotten" or 'snever knew" Vague
reports have fitted through the press at
time that her remains were lying in the
Potter's Field, or that they were given to
a medical college. Not half the people in
Washington know what disposition was
made of them when the old arsenal
grounds were remodeled and the bodies
taken away. Finding that the bodies of
Wirz and Mrs. Surratt were inferred in
Mount Olivet, your correspondent went
out to this beautiful home OF the
dead and visited the noted graves
about which there has been so much wild
speculation. The sexton met the inquiry
for the grave Of Mrs. Surratt with very
significant smile, that he explained as
follows: 1.-THE curiosity to see her grave
would have kept guide busy all the time
for the first few years after she was
buried here" said he. ''We could not
spend time to show people the grave, so
we used to direct them as well as we
could and let them find it for themselves.
There is one curious thing, though. No
one who has said any thing about it in
pTinb mas ever Dccu ADI6 TO b6l II bQ6
Taking the main road, the lot containing
the remains Of Mrs. Surratt was reached,
lying near and facing the extreme east
ern boundary of the cemetery. 1t is
the very last row OF lots on that side
Of the grounds. The lot was donated
by a friend, and is a large, well laid
out lot, containing the one neglected
grave. Some time ago a man was erect
ing monument on his lot, and an old dis
carded stone that was taken down he
wondered what he should do with. Final
~ an idea occurred to him to donate it to
Mrs. Surratt." It was accordingly set up
at her grave as a headstene, the original
name was cut of, and ''Mrs. Surratt' in.
scribed plainly across it. It is an old,
plain marble slab, about four feet high,
and stands in a leading position. The
grave of the keeper Of Andsrsonville is
single grave in a lot nearer to the main
entrance The man who buried him is
still employed at the cemetery. and as he
identified the grave he kicked one foot
against a SIN I'll block of stone.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-06-17
BEAUTIFUL MAY.

"Tve written poemrr She opened her eyes;
''Why how do you like itg' she asked in sur
prise;
81 didn't know, really, you ever wrote verse;
Ihope it's not long, for like poems terse-"
1--WE written a little, he modestly said.
''Before this, though none OF IL ever was read
But this one. / honestly think, is quite good;
I'd like you to read it, that is, II you would n
''You couldn't have thought I would answer
you no.
OF course viii ear it; it's done wen, know
But what is the subject, some deed Of frayy'
He smiled rs he answered, my Beautiful
May"
She listened to catch every word that he said,
With eyes shining brightly and partly dropped
head;
The poem he read was spring roundelay,
A tribute OF verse TO the beautiful May.
He hnished--"How do you like itYr' he said.
It's lOvely'-sho lifted her half-drOoping
head
tease,
"YOu didn't tell what was her other rame,
pleaser
Boston Budgse
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-06-17
Ups and Downs in wall street..

An old gentleman whom New York
Ledger writer met recently, in four years
paid one firm in Wall street the sum of
$3.50, 600 in commissions. He was a wealthy
man when he went into the street, with a
laudable but unwarrantable desire to in
crease his patrimOny by specializing in
stocks. Now, so heavy have been his
losses that he would be satisfied il he pos
sessed the sum he has paid out in COM
missions. AS it is, he will cheerfully ac-
cept clerkship in the same firm. If he
had been contented with a handsome suf-
ficiency for the day, amounting really to a
superabundance, he would now be in
af1uence instead of comparative destitu-
ton. On the other hand, a young clerk
who, few years ago, commenced to spec
ulate in the street with 300, the savings
of a years. abstinence from smoking, is
worth in real estate over 81, 000,O and
several moro in securities. In Wall street
speculation what is game for one man is
uin for another.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-06-17

An old cavalryman says that a horsa
viii never step on man Intentionally. Il
is a standing order with cavalry that
should a man become dismounted he
must lie down and be perfectly still II
he does so the entire company will pass
over him and he viii not be injured. Al
horse notices where he is going, and ia
on the lookout for a firm foundation to
put his foot on. It is an instinct with
him, therefore, to step over a prostrata
man. The injuries caused by a runaway
horse are nearly always inflicted by the
animal knocking people down and not by
his stepping on them.